House Beautiful Iraq

Brooklyn-based artist Martha Rosler focuses on Iraq as a war of choice. As violence and destruction rain down on Iraq, American society continues unaffected, unsuffering and unparticipating. She frames a message by dual references–using a series of photographs taken from American “nesting magazines” juxtaposed with jarring images taken from the war in Iraq. Shown here are four works: Red-Stripe Kitchen, Cellular, Gladiators and Photo-Op.

“He could be one of a million beach-bound, black-socked Florida retirees, not the man who, by some odd happenstance of life, possesses the brain of Albert Einstein — literally cut it out of the dead scientist's head.”